3 – Under the order of Captain William Bainbridge, the USS Constitution, in 1812, captured HMS Java on the Brazilian coast after a three-hour battle.

4 – Texas became America’s 28th state in 1845.

5 – The first American YMCA opened in 1851 in Boston, Massachusetts.

6 – In the year 1860, the first British marine-iron warship, the HMS warrior, has started.

7 – Sun Yat-sen was declared the President of the New Republic of China in 1911.

8 – Mongolia was liberated in 1911 from the rule of Qing Dynasty.

9 – The Netherlands adopted the Constitution in 1922.

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10 – First flight of the consolidated B-24 in 1939.

11 – European countries were nationalized in 1949 in the European country of Hungary.

12 – Metro operations in Lisbon starts in 1959.

13- The work of Metro Rail was started in Calcutta in May 1972.

14 – In the UK in 1975, the laws applicable to equal rights of women and men apply.

15 – The world’s largest open-air theatre opened in 1977 in ‘Drive’ in Bombay (now Mumbai).

16 – The Constitution came into effect in Spain in 1978.

17 – Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar scored 236 runs in Test cricket against the West Indies in 1983.

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18 – Congress won parliamentary elections in 1984 with the most massive majority in the history of independent India. By winning 28 seats in this election, Telugu emerged as the biggest opposition party in the country.

19 – Sri Lanka provided citizenship to 43,000 Indians in 1985.

20 – The Victoria Post Office Museum closed in 1988 in Australia.

21 – Vaclav Abel was elected the non-communist president of Czechoslovakia for the first time in 1989 after 1948.

22 – After the riots broke out in 1989, Hong Kong decided to return the Vietnamese refugees forcibly.

23 – The leaders of the Guatemala and Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union signed the 1996 agreement to end 36 years of civil war.

24 – Consensus in Russia and China on the issue of working together to stop the growing influence of NATO in 1996.

25 – Pakistan tourists allowed to roam in three cities of India in 2002

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26 – In 2004, the number of people killed in Indonesia was 60,000 due to Tsunami waves.

27 – China released the white paper on national defence in 2006.

28 – 21 security personnel were killed in the attack by militants in 2012 near Peshawar in Pakistan.